Our 2023 Schedule of Events
We are thrilled to invite local women to our 2023 event for panel discussions on Women & Leadership and Women in Outdoor Adventure, along with other presentations. We will be adding more details and a schedule soon. More speakers on the way!

- 10am – Doors Open
- 10:15am – Iconic Dance demo
- 10:30am – Presentation by Erin Brookhart — Style for Every body: Empowerment Through Inclusive Fashion
- 10:55am – Giveaway
- 11am – Presentation by Wendy Duncan — The Mental Side of Entrepreneurship
- 11:45am – Giveaway
- 12:30pm – Women in Outdoor Adventure Panel Discussion
- 1:45pm – Giveaway
- 2:15pm – Giveaway
- 2:30pm – Women and Leadership Panel Discussion
- 3:30pm – Grand Prize Raffle
- 4pm – AdventurUs Women’s Icebreaker BINGO

Giveaways & Raffles!
Come down early! We have a free specialty gift bag for the first 150 attendees. Fill up your bag with goodies from our vendors highlighted with a special bouquet of flowers at their booth!
- $50 gift card for a Skin Renewal Treatment at Bella-Nuova Spa
- Gift certificate for 2 months of classes at Iconic Dance
- ONE FREE UltraSlim treatment from Bend Laser Lipo
- 2 $50 giftcards for photo sessions with Sharmapics
- $100 gift card to Bella Threads Boutique
- $100 gift card for a facial at Bella-Nuova Spa
- 2 $25 gift cards at Bella-Nuova Spa
- Free 1-on-1 coaching session with Ceiling: Unlimited Health Coaching
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GRAND PRIZE RAFFLE BUNDLE
Stay late and enter our Grand Prize Raffle Giveaway! Winners will be announced at 3:30pm during the event. You must be present to claim this amazing bundle of freebies from our sponsors and vendors!
- 1 month unlimited membership to Orange Theory Fitness Bend
- 1 hour reading with Intuitive Reader & Teacher, Cathleen Hylton
- $100 Sisters Hats & Co. gift certificate
- $150 facial from Evoke Healing Space
IceBreaker Bingo - 4pm
Stay late and play some BINGO. Hosted by Saveria Tilden, CEO & Founder of AdventurUs Women.
Bingo cards will be handed out at 4pm. You will have 30 minutes to complete the card and turn it in. Winners will be chosen randomly from the completed Bingo cards.
⭐️ One grand prize winner will get 50% off an AdventurUs Summer Escape Retreat entry ($800 value)
⭐️ 10 runner ups will get $200 off the Summer Escape Retreat. Winners must be present to win.
Panels & Presentations

Panel Moderater: Nicole Vulcan
Since 2016, Nicole Vulcan has served as editor of the Source Weekly, Central Oregon’s locally owned, weekly newspaper, which has won dozens of statewide journalism awards under her leadership. Prior to that, Vulcan worked as a news producer for KPTV in Portland, Oregon and KEVN in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Heading up an independent publication like the Source is a dream come true for her, combining her leadership skills with a passion for community journalism and a drive to tell underrepresented stories. She welcomes your comments and thoughtful feedback at editor@bendsource.com.
Women in Outdoor Adventure Panel Discussion - 12:30pm
For girls, early outdoor experiences can boost self-confidence and foster a positive body image – not to mention the beauty and serenity that the outdoors can provide. Join our panel of women leaders whose work and advocacy is aimed at increasing participation in outdoor activities – everything from climbing to mountain biking to bike commuting – for women and BIPOC individuals in Central Oregon. We’ll talk about what changes they hope to see in the outdoor industry, what misconceptions people might have about their respective passions and what inspires them about their work.
PANELISTS

Meredith Brandt
Director of Operations for Grit Clinics and Ladies AllRide
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Meredith is a PMBIA-certified mountain bike instructor who started Grit Clinics in Bend, Oregon in 2011. Her vision was to provide women with a way to learn mountain biking skills in a fun, structured, and supportive environment. In 2015, Meredith partnered with Lindsey Richter, founder of Ladies AllRide, to take their women’s mountain bike skills camps on the road. As the Director of Operations for Grit Clinics and Ladies AllRide, Meredith helps create amazing experiences on bikes for both participants and coaches alike.

Elisa Cheng
President of Bend Bikes
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Elisa has been a Bend resident since 2010 when she moved from Honolulu, Hawaii. She has been interested in biking since around 2008 when she decided to get on a bike again for the first time since childhood by training for a half-Ironman triathlon. She frequents the roads as she mainly uses her bike to commute, does the occasional road ride, and mountain bikes on any trail she can find. It’s one of her goals to bike every Oregon scenic bikeway.

Saveria Tilden
CEO & Founder of AdventurUs Women
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Saveria Tilden (she/her/hers) is the CEO & Founder of AdventurUs Women. Her passion is empowering women through outdoor experiences. She believes that adventure is defined differently by each individual, and that there is adventure in all of “Us”, which is the inspiration behind the name, AdventurUs Women. Too often there are barriers that keep women from getting outdoors and Saveria wants to remove these barriers.
AdventurUs Women does this by creating life-changing outdoor experiences that prioritize learning outdoor skills and community building, while encouraging fun, laughter, and friendship. AdventurUs Women welcomes women of all ages, race, size, background, and experience levels and participants of all gender identities and expressions who feel that a women’s space is right for them.
Saveria has more than a decade’s experience in the outdoor industry, managing and developing strategic partnerships and experiential marketing campaigns. For two years, she worked closely with the REI HQ Team managing the partners & programming for Outessa, a national outdoor retreat series for women, and has worked for REI Outdoor School as an instructor, teaching a variety of classes including kayaking, SUP, biking, rock climbing, map and compass/navigation, hiking, backpacking, and more.
Saveria’s volunteer efforts include being the Chair of the board of directors for the American Hiking Society. She is certified as a Wilderness First Responder, AMGA Single Pitch Climbing Instructor, and Leave No Trace Master Educator. Saveria lives in Bend, OR with her adventure pup @BettyBooInTheWild.
Women and Leadership Panel Discussion - 2:30pm
Women today hold leadership roles in nearly every industry and profession – but while there’s representation, there isn’t parity for women and BIPOC leaders. In this panel discussion, Central Oregon women leaders talk about their career paths, their ideas for fostering more inclusive and expansive workplaces, the resources they recommend for other women leaders and aspiring leaders, and where they gain inspiration for that next great idea.
PANELISTS

Cheryl Csiky
Executive Director of In Our Backyard
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Cheryl Csiky has been a leader in the fight against human trafficking since 2011. She has worked from recovery to restoration and possesses expertise in many aspects of human trafficking.
Cheryl’s journey was prompted in 2011 by reading a book that confronted the atrocity of human trafficking, In Our Backyard, by Nita Belles. Armed with that knowledge, her natural leadership skills compelled her to begin mobilizing other volunteers to serve, resulting in recoveries, safe housing, and outreach strategies.
This work also began to stir inside Cheryl a realization about the worst experiences of her own childhood. At 10 years of age she was groomed by a peer into doing “dates” for his profit in her suburban middle-class neighborhood. Her new understanding of trafficking caused her to realize she was actually a child trafficking survivor.
Cheryl courageously lives her healing journey from childhood sexual exploitation by raising awareness, mobilizing others and disrupting traffickers’ tactics and profits. Her experience now compels others to see this atrocity through a child’s lens.
Before joining IN OUR BACKYARD, Cheryl served as a Compassion and Justice Pastor for a Chicago area mega church from 2013-2018. In that role, she developed anti-trafficking awareness programs, mobilized volunteers into various positions of nonprofits, and has continuously mentored and housed survivors. Her decade of extraordinary leadership leaves a legacy of courage with boots on the ground.
Since 2020, Cheryl is the Executive Director of IN OUR BACKYARD, a national anti-trafficking nonprofit that links arms across America in the fight against human trafficking. Her passion, competency and experience provide leadership at IN OUR BACKYARD and beyond. She loves to travel the world, create story, play video games, and spend time with family at Disney World.

Danetha Doe
Founder of Money & Mimosas
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Danetha Doe is a Jamaican-Liberian writer based in the United States. She is a public speaker, Webby Award-winning TV host, and the founder of Money & Mimosas®.
In 2023, she was named one of the top five Black personal finance experts to follow by Yahoo! Finance. In 2022, she was named one of the top 100 most influential financial experts alongside Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran.
Danetha was the original financial expert and TV host for Ashton Kutcher’s series on millennials and money which garnered over 20 million views during her season.
She is a regular guest financial expert for Google and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Danetha is an expert media source for outlets including Fortune, TIME, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and CNBC.
Danetha has been recognized as a millennial thought leader by the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs, a millennial entrepreneur to watch by the office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and one of the best money experts for millennials by Yahoo! Finance.
Danetha has a B.A. in Economics.

Jesse Durham
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Owner of Sisters Coffee Company
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Jesse Durham’s family moved to Sisters in 1988 to start Sisters Coffee Company. She lived in Costa Rica, Argentina, France, Portland and New York City before returning to Sisters in 2012 to help with the family business. Jesse now co-owns the company with her two brothers. As Chief Strategy Officer, Jesse oversees the Sisters Coffee’s supply chain and wholesale distribution channels. Jesse has a BA in French from Portland State University, and is fluent in Spanish. In 2020, Jesse was honored to receive the Bend Chamber and Source’s Woman of the Year award. She has served on several boards in the community, including Sisters EDCO board, and she currently serves on Sisters’ destination management board, Explore Sisters. Jesse loves to hike in the Three Sisters Wilderness while spending time with her husband and one year old son.
PRESENTATIONS
Style for Every body: Empowerment Through Inclusive Fashion - 10:30am

About Erin Brookhart
About Erin Brookhart
website: calicoconcept.com
instagram: thecalicoconcept
The Mental Side of Entrepreneurship - 11am
Wendy Duncan, of Wendy Duncan Personal Development Coaching, will be presenting a power-packed session on the topic of The Mental Side of Entrepreneurship.
Do you ever have challenges with:
• maintaining positivity, drive, and focus?
• understanding how your mind works?
• recognizing your self-sabotaging thoughts, and more importantly, how to eradicate them and course correct?
• letting go of things that you cannot control?
• how to crash through your self-imposed blocks?
Wendy is a former Realtor® and understands the challenges that we face in an uncertain economy, let alone starting a new business or maintaining a thriving business. Allow Wendy to assist you in not only unlocking your potential, but to also give you tips and techniques to maintain your laser focus through 2023.

About Wendy Duncan
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Wendy Duncan is a personal development coach and motivational speaker. Her credentials include licensing with LifeSuccess Consultants and she holds the Corporate Speaker designation in accordance with the guidelines of the International Association of Corporate Speakers. She is the author of S.T.R.E.S.S. (Simple Techniques for Radically Eliminating Severe Stress), The Mental Side of Releasing Weight program and The Mental Side of Entrepreneurship program. She provides individual and group coaching for personal, physical and business success. She has been in practice since 2008. She has appeared on Good Morning Central Oregon, MyWindow and Central Oregon Daily. Wendy was a Realtor® from 2004 – 2008 and was licensed in California, Oregon and Washington. She was an administrative assistant for the building and beauty industries from 1989 to 2003.